Bio

Rosa Daniela Diaz honours matrilineal histories and her Uruguayan cultural heritage, celebrating women and ancient textile processes and techniques, through care and reparative practices and a feminist lens. Diaz repurposes found, aged and gifted materials, exploring its potential for transformation, conscious that the material has history and carries memory. Her most recent body of work transforms her mother’s aged dressmaking pattern paper into sculptural forms, mapping cultural place, ancestral lineage and exploring the ability for the material to be a conduit for care, repair and healing.

Based in Sydney, Australia, Diaz has a Master of Contemporary Art Practice (textiles) from the, Australian National University in Canberra 2023, a Master of Art (painting) from, UNSW Art & Design, 2016, and a Diploma and Advanced Diploma in Visual arts from Wollongong West TAFE, 2013 - 2014.

Diaz’s most recent exhibitions include, solo exhibition, Bloodline, 2024, Airspace Projects, Marrickville. Group shows, Textiles and Fibre, 2024, Project Contemporary Artspace, Wollongong, Fishers Ghost Art Award 2024 (finalist), Campbelltown Arts Centre, selected as Focus artist for, Friends Annual & Focus Exhibition, Campbelltown Arts Centre, 2024, ANU School of Art and Design GradShow 2023, Canberra, Textiles and Fibre, 2023, Project Contemporary Artspace, Wollongong, Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (finalist), 2023, Campbelltown Arts Centre, ANU School of Art and Design Drawing Prize (finalist) 2023, Canberra, International Womens Day Exhibition, Wollongong, 2023, 2021, 2020, Artestudio Ginestrelle AIR Exhibition, Assisi, Italy, 2017.

She has participated in international artist residencies at Chateau Orquevaux in France, and Artestudio Ginestrelle in Assisi, Italy, in 2017 and Australian residency, Bilpin International Ground for Creative Initiatives (BigCi) in 2016.

Her work is held in private collections in Australia.